What would you do if you actually needed someone to know something?
You’d call. You’d send a direct message. You’d say it, out loud, directly, to their face.
That’s the thing about social media that doesn’t get talked about enough. It gave us a way to communicate without communicating. To be seen without being known. To send a signal without taking responsibility for the signal.
Like a narcissist baiting their next supply.
You don’t say “I want this.” You perform wanting it for an audience and hope the right person is watching.
Artists do it with their shows. DJs do it with their gigs. Instead of calling the people they actually want in the room, they post and hope. The invitation never gets sent. It gets published.
If social media disappeared tomorrow, most people would have to learn how to want things out loud again. How to be the one who picks up the phone first. How to say I was thinking about you like a complete sentence and not a performance.
We outsourced our directness to an algorithm and called it staying connected. But staying connected isn’t the same as being connected. One is a feed. The other is a conversation you have to be brave enough to start. Not to make excuses around.
Directness isn’t an open invitation to everyone. It’s a standard you hold with the people worth holding it with, the ones who meet you there. Reciprocity is the filter. Not everyone deserves your signal.
But those who do, won’t make you feel like you’re not a priority. You won’t need to perform for them or hope they saw your story.
Nature, music, life, and spirit find their way into everything I make, whether digital or traditional. If a piece calls to you or you’d like to create something together, reach out at writeme@lheanstorm.com
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